The Whitney Peak Hotel Climbing wall has long been touted as the tallest wall in the country. But last month, the Guinness Book of World Records committee officially named it the tallest artificial climbing wall in the world.

Whitney Peak's wall opened Oct. 1, 2011. It starts on the second floor of the hotel and stretches to the roof, putting the top of the wall at 188 feet above street level.

The Guinness Book of World Records originally did not consider the Whitney Peak wall because it was attached to the hotel. The record for a freestanding climbing wall went to a 137.42-foot wall constructed at the Historic Banning Mills in Whitesburg, Georgia, according to another record in the Guinness Book of World Records.

It appears they reconsidered by making a new category.

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